The JAWG has announced it is in talks with Treasury around five “core principles” to strengthen the education standards for new entrants to the financial advice space....
TAL has introduced four new courses to its Risk Academy focused on ethical dilemmas as part of Ethics Month to help advisers meet their CPD requirements....
The heads of two financial advice licensees have joined the board of the Financial Services Council as it looks to deepen its engagement with the space and strengthen its...
It can be extremely hard to realise the gains from financial advice M&A, according to Peloton Partners’ Rob Jones, and more could be gained from firms looking inward at t...
Adviser Ratings has explored whether there is a financial benefit to advice firms seeking to have a specialised client base in terms of client assets and fees charged....
Two financial advice businesses are to merge in a bid to create a multidisciplinary professional services firm as part of AZ NGA’s “super firm” strategy....
Progressing digital advice and seeking breakeven in the advice division are part of AMP’s goals for the upcoming financial year as it approaches 1,000 financial advisers ...
Schroders Australia, ClearBridge and GAM have all made new hires in their distribution teams, focusing on wealth and financial advisers. ...
The top salaries for financial advisers have risen by more than a third in the past year in one state, according to recruitment firm Robert Walters....
Findex has announced private equity firm Mercury Capital will acquire a 40 per cent stake in the company from KKR as it seeks to triple in size in the next five years....
Support from advisers alongside financial education continues to be an integral driver of older Australians’ contentment in retirement, according to new data from Challen...
The introduction of financial advice from superannuation funds and banks could see adviser numbers grow to as much as 25,000 in the future. ...
Wealth Data’s Colin Williams believes the idea of four financial advice firms failing per year, as put forward in CSLR estimates, is too low an estimate....
One year since the FPA and AFA merged, Money Management speaks with FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood on what the combined organisation’s advocacy has accomplished....
Liberal senator Slade Brockman has said the government needs to have a “cold hard look” at the level of regulation in the financial advice space and the costs of running ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...